001It's 7 o'clock. If y'all don't care, stand up. Um, we're going to have a prayer by Khloe Cornish and then please continue standing for the Pledge of Allegiance by Mason Stewart and the national anthem by Palmer Wells. >> Gracious and loving God, we thank you for bringing us together this evening in service to our community and our schools. We ask for your wisdom to guide the discussions and patience to hear one another. Encourage to make decisions that uplift the students, teachers, and families. Bless every child in our district with opportunities to learn, to grow, and to discover their unique gifts. Strengthen our educators and staff with energy, compassion, and pres perseverance in the important work they do each day. Grant us unity of purpose even in times of disagreement and remind us that the common
002goal is the well-being and future of the well of the young students entrusted to your care. We ask this with gratitude. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the republic, United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Say you see by the dawn early light. What so proudly we held at the twilight last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallently streaming and the rockets It's red glare. The bombs bursting in gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star spangled yet wave or the man of the free and the home of the brave. [Applause] [Music] Thank you all. This September 8th uh regularly scheduled board
003meeting is called to order. Uh can I get a motion to adopt an agenda? >> Motion to adopt agenda. Scott Brown. Second, Steve Carmichael. >> Well, the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins, >> yes. >> Steve H. Scott Brown, >> yes. >> Steve Carmichael, >> yes. >> James Sergeant, >> Sunny Fentress, >> yes. >> Uh, attendance report. Uh, let the minutes show that all members are present. Um, >> approval of the minutes. There >> any questions regarding the minutes? >> Motion to approve. Scott Brown, second. Steve Carmichael. >> The first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. James Sergeant. Yes. >> Sunny Fentrez. >> Yes. financial report. Good evening. Overall,
004revenue has increased by 4 and a.5% over this time last year. Uh the increase is due in part to an increase in seek funding of about $126,000 or 6% and an increase in utilities tax of approximately $130,000. Um, other revenues for the month of August are mostly flat and that's due to the timing of taxes that are paid. Expenditures for salary and benefits are up 7.8%. This is reasonable based on the step and 4 and a.5% raise that was approved. I do anticipate that to level off closer to the 6 to 6 12% number as the year progresses. Non- salary expenditures are up 20.5%. We do have several drivers of that increase as I mentioned at the last meeting. Couple of examples would include the insurance premium increase, uh, traceable communication software and various other
005software costs that we increase for the year. That is all I have this evening. >> Josh, do you expect that the 20.5 to go down? That was the only one that And I'm reme off. Um, and when I talk about the working budget, I do actually anticipate that we will have less operational costs this year than we did last year. But when you have only a couple of months worth of expenditures, when you compare those to the just two months in the previous year, if you had any increases, small increases can really cause percentage jumps. So, yeah, I do expect that to level off as well. I should have said that. Thank you. >> Can I get a motion to accept the financial report? Motion to accept Steve Carmichael. >> Second. Scott Brown with first
006and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins, >> yes. >> Scott Brown, >> yes. >> Steve Carmichael, >> yes. >> Sunny Fentress, >> yes. >> James Sergeant, >> yes. >> Orders of the treasurer. >> Are there any questions regarding the orders? >> No questions. >> If no questions, can I get a motion? >> Most approved. Order of treasurer Scott Brown. >> Second. Steve Carmichael. >> Both first and second. Can I go to roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. Yes. >> Sunny Fentrez. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. >> Superintendent report. >> Thank you. >> Like to welcome everyone tonight. Um, everyone who's here in the room as well as everyone that's online. Um we um had
007some very special students from Anderson County Middle School do an amazing job on the pledge, the prayer, and the national anthem. Let's give them another round of applause. [Applause] I'd also like to thank their teacher. She's not here, but Miss Britney Dval does an amazing job working with the students as well as Mrs. Rose, our principal at Anderson County Middle School. Thank you both for organizing and coming with our students tonight. Um we also have some very special students we'd like to recognize um tonight. Um, Principal Glass and I um are going to recognize our governor's scholars as well as our governor's school for the arts. So, if those students would please come forward at this time while I'm talking, I'll let you all just come forward. Um, the the Governor Scholar Program in the
008Arts is a very very competitive program. Um, our students, as you see here tonight, we had um four students um qualify and participate. one is absent tonight, but they go through a very rigorous process um competing with students across the Commonwealth, filling out an application, getting references, and um writing an essay and doing a lot of um groundwork just to apply for the program. And then what happens is they're selected from a poll among their peers at the high school as well as across the Commonwealth. So, um tonight, uh we're very proud of our students. um one who um choose um to apply and um of course once they get selected it's just a huge honor and a big accolade um for our students who are selected. So we have um three students um for
009the governor scholar Holland Zoff uh Jerry Chin who is not here tonight and Coleman Lrand. Let's give them a great big round of applause. And we have one student who qualified for the Governor School of the Arts and that is that's Mrs. Aubrey Thompson who studied photography. Let's give her a great big round of applause as well. This program started in 1983, quite some years ago. And I heard some conversation in the back of the room as we were starting um our meeting tonight. And it we it talked about they were talking about just how students qualified. We had some governor scholars in the room. Raise your hand if you're a governor scholar from the past. Mr. Rose, raise your hand. I know. Were you a governor scholar? No. No. Okay. So, we had at
010least two or three governor scholars in the room along with our uh current students which was pretty awesome. Um but it used to just be the number one ranked student in the class and so now it's so competitive and it opens up such a wide range of opportunities for students. They get to study um liberal arts. They get to study sciences. They get to study um photography and just whatever their interests are. When they write their essay, they get the opportunity to determine what they would like to study for the summer. So, these students were spread across three universities or colleges across the Commonwealth. um and um got to spend a lot of time learning um the assigned subject as well as learning a lot of new people faces and friends. And I hope that
011a couple of them would be willing to share a couple of things about the program. If not, it's okay. You don't have to. But um my daughter was a Governor Scholar. She loved it. She absolutely loved the experience. And um if you all would like to have an opportunity tonight to speak about your program, you're welcome to. And if not, it's okay. Anybody? Okay. GSP is a truly amazing experience in which we get to meet lots of friends and make them um across the Commonwealth and I will highly encourage any young student to apply. >> Um GSA really did change my perspective of the arts being surrounded by so many other young artists. Um it gave me a gateway of expression and a lot of confidence. So now I'm more involved in my school and
012I do media for Y club and both JS. So I really encourage any student to apply to share your favorite experience from GSP or GSA. Favorite experience. Yeah. >> Um my favorite experience was um getting to make a documentary on one of the visual arts students because I really focus on photography and not like video stuff. So, it was really cool getting to do all that and direct my own video. >> One of the things that all the students say when they come back is they really learn um just and they get to meet students from across the Commonwealth and so they learn different cultures, different people, um different environments and it's one of the best things and they they find lifelong friends. So, I hope you all did as well. I hope you loved
013it as much as um these two and and my daughter did. And uh please know how proud we are of you all that you spent your summer learning and growing personally as well as academically. We're so proud of you all. Please let's give them a great big round of applause for their accomplishments. You want to take a picture with them? Mr. Glass will take a picture with you. Is that okay? Congratulations. One more round of applause for our students. Next, um Mr. Glass is going to help me with this next presentation. Um, for those of you and some of our students in the in um the audience um know that we have an amazing AP program at Anderson County High School and um we have one I think AP teacher in the room uh Mr.
014Ser um who a lot of students have had including my daughter who's amazing. Uh he's one of the people um that we are going to be talking about tonight with um his um special talents. Um but Mr. class um and the staff at Anderson County High School for years have done an amazing job um creating continuing to expand and really providing an opportunity for students in Anderson County Schools to have an amazing experience in an AP program um that a lot of folks um students um just that touch our county don't get to experience. And so tonight I asked him to come and talk about um their overall performance. Um we're super proud of our students, but we couldn't do it without our staff. So he's going to share some of those statistics just so
015that everybody knows and understands what an amazing program we have, what accomplishments our students um have have done, and uh a special thank you to our teachers who are those that lead these classrooms. Mr. Glass, >> thank you. Um, yeah, we've got a great group of teachers and just some awesome students. And, um, you know, one thing I found throughout the years, um, I've been here probably longer than they wish I would have been at this point in time, but they haven't kicked me out yet, and I still love what I'm doing. But what I found out in looking at data and looking at what our students do, our AP program really drives our students performance at the next level. So, our kids are going to college and they're exceeding and they're actually outperforming their
016peers due to the AP program and the and the lior the the rigor that is in our courses and the performance that they're getting on the AP test. So, it's it's a testament to our teachers. Um, we have great teachers. Uh, some of us are getting a little bit older than some of the younger ones, Mr. Ser. Um, so, so we have we have some of the new crew that is coming in and um, you know, it's kind of a changing of the guard a little bit, so to speak. We have some wonderful AP teachers and they do a great job in the classroom. Right now, we currently offer 19 AP courses at the high school. Um, and if you don't know, kind of what's happened lately is BCTC's kind of taken over. So, people
017are doing a lot more dual credit classes. Well, the amazing thing in Anderson County is our kids still want to take the AP course work and they still want to challenge themselves at high levels. So, we've actually seen the number of tests we are given go up even though students can opt out and go the BCTC route if they so choose. And that's a great route for some of our students, too. My daughter in particular uh chose that route, but it gives students an option. We were just recently ranked in the top 27% of high schools in the state of Kentucky by US News. One of the big pieces to that is your AP status. That's one of the big factors that factors into that is the opportunity for students to earn AP credit. We
018had 81 students that were labeled as AP scholars this year. So 81 of our students were labeled as AP SC scholars. We had 312 exams that were passed last year in the 2425 school year and 196 students earned college credit. Now, you're probably looking at that and saying, "Wait, 196 312." Some kids obviously got multiple credits or passed multiple AP exams during that time. This is the thing that all the parents want to see. Uh, and I know I got excited about at that time. AC students, families saved a minimum of $474,525 in college tuition. Now, we base that off the University of Kentucky prices. Some are four-hour classes, some are three-hour classes, but still an amazing amount of money, almost half a million dollars. By the numbers, in 13 courses, ACS students outscored the
019state average. In 13 courses, ACS students outscored the global average. That's 13 of the 19 that we offered. Six AP teachers had a 100% pass rate. Every kid who took the exam passed the exam. and 14 AP teachers out of our 19 had a pass rate of over 80%. So, as always, we're looking to to get better, but um I think that's pretty good results and they did a great job. Lastly, um I'll just put these numbers up every year. The one thing I thought that was kind of interesting this year, we had um 50 more students. Last year, we passed 199 exams. This year we had 50 more uh students that passed an exam. So as opposed to 199. Still almost a 72% pass rate on the test and again almost half a million
020dollars in savings. That's all I've got. Thank you guys. If there's no comments from visitors, we'll move on. Um, next up is the construction payment summary. uh consideration to approve payment summary number 18 in the amount of $62,1839 to the following vendors uh for Anderson County uh middle school Sapp Street uh project uh 23-130 uh Baston Painting uh for $250. Central Kentucky Sheet Metal for 5,000. Uh Ferguson Enterprises for $83723. Uh and Rising Sun Development uh for $50,81247 for a total of $62,1839. Chairman, I would like to propose to the board to um I recommend approval of this um this pay app, but I would also like to recommend if possible to do rising sun in two payments um the majority of the payment, which would be just a little bit more than half, um
021go ahead and paying that out for the services rendered, but also waiting and paying out a second um $25,000 check um whenever um the field um has been seen. completed um and the work is completed and that would be my recommendation just to make sure that everything is finished prior to payment. Um any questions that I can answer? >> I think that's a great recommendation. Thank you. >> With that, I'll make a motion uh minus the um half of the price of the rising sun. >> Thank you. To be paid later. to be played >> whenever upon completion >> when whenever we're happy with it. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Second. Steve Carmichael >> with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins, >>
022yes. >> Scott Brown, >> yes. >> Steve Carmichael, >> yes. >> Sunny Fentrez, >> yes. >> James Sergeant, >> yes. >> Construction updates. Good evening. Uh so as far as construction goes, we again that that is the final payments. We had previously discussed recommendation of holding off that final payment to Rising Sun uh upon completion of the field kind of helping to incentivize them a little bit more to get down there. They again they've discussed refertilizing and everything. They're getting I talked to them again today. They're going to get a plan together and dates on coming out there and make sure it's not interfering with anything going on with the school, but refertilizing the field. And I've advised them that as of tonight, payments would be approved. The second half or basically half of that
023payment would be pending upon finishing that work. Um, as far as HVAC stuff, they're still dealing with a handful, just some kind of warranty type things. I'm going to continue to be the main point of contact for the school. If anything were to come up, just contact me and we will see to it that it gets taken care of. The secure of Espiel is operational. Happy to report. And uh I think everything else is wound up. Any questions? >> You like that update? >> What? Um I appreciate the opportunity y'all have given us to work with you all on this project and uh hope everybody's satisfied. I will say that uh again I similar to like he said earlier I I may have been around longer than you all wanted me around but I've been
024happy to be here and happy to serve. >> Absolutely. I'll just add to that Ross turn architects are always available to you um if anything ever were to come up. Um please do not hesitate at all to contact us. Um and it has been a pleasure to work with you and uh we hope that it has added in our uh relationship with you with the district. We enjoy it very much. Thank you. >> Thank you all. Next up, we have the working budget. Joshu Before I start the working budget presentation, I'll also add to the construction update. I think we're very close to being able to file for our inflation reduction act rebate. They came and did a site visit in the last month. So, we should be able to get that filed and hopefully
025get our rebate from the IRS at some point very, very soon. With that, I'll start in on the working budget for fiscal year 2026. That's school year 2526. And I handed you guys a document, and I'm not going to go page by page through this, but some of the graphics I'm going to use are off of that. And it's got some information as well that I put together as kind of a a brief narrative of how we spend our money and where it comes from. So, the first thing that you see if you open that up, just says, "Have you ever wondered, and you know, I'm kind of a a nerd with some some numbers now that I've been up here for a little bit." And I got to thinking, the school district runs basically
026like a household if you if you think about a budget. We have lights, we have water, we have sewer, we have all that kind of stuff that goes on. And have you ever wondered how much it costs to to light up the schools? And if you look there, you can see last year we spent um $618,000 for electricity across all our campuses in the district. I've budgeted for 63,500. This year, that's a little bit of a shot in the dark, if you will. Um it's an educated guess. That's an average of the last two years is what that is. And so kind of put a number on it. Water and sewer costs. We spent 76,487,000 $76,487 on water and sewer last school year. Um I'm budgeting 78,400 this year. Other utilities, natural gas, we spent
027$24,332 last year. I'm budgeting 21,500 for this year. Just using an average the last couple years to come up with those numbers. This has kind of been a hot topic across our community. Trash and sanitation from the general fund. Last year, uh, we spent, uh, $34,460 to have trash picked up at our school campuses. And starting this year, those numbers have basically doubled for us. So, this fiscal year, this working budget, I'm budgeting $67,800 based on the cost from July that I've seen come in already. So, that's a big jump for us. There's some other items that are in this pack that's in this packet of information um that also goes through some other costs that we have, but altogether we spend about threequarters of a million dollars to basic needs of our campuses. Water,
028electric, trash pickup, and uh gas. When you think about what do we contribute to our community, Anderson County has just under 500 full-time staff members. We've talked about this at previous meetings, and about 75% of them live in Anderson County. that I looked back at that again for this year that's still holding true. I think it was 74.3% something like that. But about 75% of our staff members live here in Anderson County with an average salary of $47,400. You can think about how those folks contribute to the local economy to everything that's happening within our own community. And I also took a look back and I you know my kids I joke every time we drive by a school they want to know what's going on in the school building. I have no idea guys.
029I don't really know. I don't know everything that happens every single day around here, but they think I do. So, it kind of got me thinking about, you know, what is going on in our school buildings. And so, we look back and and I did this last year. We had about 250 home athletic events every school year. So, roughly 250 home athletic events across elementary up to the high school. So, we're hosting something all of the time at one of our buildings. We have fall festivals, band concerts, chorus concerts, musicals. We also have the community in our buildings on a regular basis, uh, utilizing our facilities for all sorts of things. Dance recital, distinguished young women, uh, youth athletics, Farm Bureau contest, Rotary Club breakfast, the elections. We could go on and on and on.
030So, my point there is to say we're a a really big contributor to the community of Anderson County and what goes on in the local economy. And our budget is representative of that. So, why do we talk about the working budget? Well, number one is because it's required, right? Um there's a ministry of regulation that goes with that. There has to be an approval by the board by September 30th and then I submit this to Kentucky Department of Education. We posted out there on the internet for anybody who wants to see it. Um you can see I just took the screenshot the other day, the 25 working budgets out there from last year and after you guys approve tonight, assuming that you do, we'll post the 26 budget as well and then submit that to
031KDE. So, if anybody wants to see it, it is under the financial reports on the district web page. So, looking into the budget a little more deeply, um we do have some increased expenses. You heard me talk about a few of those earlier today. We have workers comp insurance increase of $20,000, property and casualty insurance increase of 78,000. Heard me talk about the utilities trash just a second ago. We're sort of unique as a district and we have a matching incentive for our employees. They contribute 2 and a.5% of their income into a 403b. You guys match it with one and a half percent with an increase in salaries. We have an increase in that matching incentive of about $13,000 this year. And then you heard me talk about some software cost. We invested in
032some human resources software this year that I think is really going to streamline the onboarding process. Um and then we have the Senate Bill 181 software. Together those cost about $36,000 in increased expenses. U Mr. Mr. Carmarmac asked me a good question about did I hope that 20.5% was going to level off. I do think it will because we do have some decreased expenses as well. One of those is our fleet vehicles. We made quite a few purchases last year to get back in line. I do still have some budget. You can see that over to the right for this year, but not nearly as much. Our CRS contribution rate, that's the county employees, our classified employees uh retirement contribution rate is down by just a little over 1% this year. So, that's helpful. Diesel
033fuel costs have decreased for us. We had budgeted $240,000 last year and I think we only spent $127,000 and this year I've budgeted like 150,000. So that's a decrease in what was budgeted. School nurses is a big decrease as well. We were able to split that 6040 with Cumberland family um instead of 5050. So that's going to save us about $30,000 this year. We also have some strategic investments that uh are planned in the budget. three buses. Got three buses coming. We do have the EPA grant that's going to offset the cost of those. So, that was nice. We have some athletic field maintenance that we've budgeted for and I just said um some fleet maintenance vehicles and possibly some equipment repair or equipment replacement that we have budgeted. In terms of contingency, in fiscal
034year 22, we ended the year at about 10% contingency. Fiscal year 23, that was down to 5%. Fiscar 24, we bounced back to 8%. And we have not completed all the audit this year. The auditor was in the district over the last few days. Um, and right now we're looking at ending year fiscal fiscal year 25 at about 11% contingency. Um, to wrap up the year, which was very good. And for the working budget, uh, this year I've got us at 7.09%. Uh to do that, we do use some fund transfers from capital outlay and the building funds to help cover some of those costs that are allowed uh based on the CFR process, the capital funds request. That helps us build that contingency while also investing in our people and investing in our our
035maintenance of our buildings and and the grounds that we have for the general fund. This is the biggest fund that we have. Um this is the driver of almost everything for us. general fund revenues. Uh you can see there that at the end for unodudited actuals in fiscal year 25, we had about 12.4 million um in total local revenue. I'm sorry, 13.1 million in total local revenue and I'm budgeting for 13.4 million approximately for fiscal year 26 in local revenue. Little bit of an increase there. And then our actual overall revenue uh was 40.145 million. That's a little bit hard to compare to the working budget for fiscal year 26. If you look at the onbehalf number, um you can see it's 9,653,000. I don't want to say that's a fictitious number because it's real
036money that the state contributes toward health insurance and retirement cost, but we don't ever touch that dollar. Um that's just on a spreadsheet that KDE gives us. we recorded on our books. So, it's not a number that's really easy to kind of factor into the cost um to to total up for revenue. So, you can see I've budgeted 8.9 million there. That's kind of a placeholder overall. Um so, really we're looking at total revenues of 39,945,46 back out that 9 million for on behalf. So, about $30 million give or take there in total revenue. And you can see how that breaks out in local, state, state on behalf, uh, transfers, and a beginning balance. So, it's kind of interesting. If you look at the blue box, our local revenue or or the blue pie, I
037should say, our local revenue accounts for about 33.5%. And you can see the red is 33.2. That's the state revenue, actual money they're sending us. They're almost the same. We're contributing just a tiny bit more than the state until you drop the on behalf number in there and then the state picks up about half. In terms of expenses for the general fund, uh salary expenses, we are projecting to spend about 1.4 million in additional salary expenses. That goes along with the uh step and raise that we talked about earlier. And in operational expenses, uh Mr. Mr. Carmichael was asking about that unodudited actuals for fiscal year 25. We had 14.3 million in operation expenses. I'm budgeting 14.119. So I'm budgeting that we're going to spend just a little bit less in operations. Hopefully that is
038the case. Overall expenditures are up because of the uh the salary increases though. And you can see down at the very bottom there the contingency fund percentage 7.09% is where we've budgeted or about 2.6 643 million is the number. I put that into the the pie chart for you there on the right in terms of where are we spending our dollars. And you can see the vast majority of our money goes to the the light blue there and that's instruction. And a lot of the other pieces contribute to instruction being able to take place. Uh the second largest expense we have is plant operations and maintenance which if you think about the things I talked about earlier uh with the operational expenses we have there that would make some sense as well. Couple of things
039we need to think about moving forward um in terms of expenses. The legislature passed maternity leave for our staff members. We have not budgeted for that yet because we haven't put a policy in place. We've got some time, but this year is kind of going to be a study of what other folks are doing, how that's going to look. But at some point, we're going to have to figure out a way to put a number on what that's going to cost the district for 30 days worth of maternity leave if that's what we choose to do. So, that's something I've been thinking about that that's on the horizon um that that we need to be budgeting for as we move forward. But really, I think this budget shows that we've invested in our people. We've
040invested in our staff. We've invested our students through doing that by putting our money with our with our folks who are who are in the classroom. We have some other funds that go along with the general fund. The special revenue fund or fund two as it's known in house that is all of our grants, our state and local federal grants. Right now, we can expect that we would have about 2.8 8 million in state grants and about 2.6 million um in federal grants. Those are the current year projects. The previous year, you can see we spent about 6.3 million um in grant funds. Those are all the previous year projects. This is a a moneyin, money out fund. It should balance itself in zero out. So you can see that we've got $5.6 million in
041revenue and $5.6 million in expenses. So it's a it's a selfbalancing fund. The food service fund. This is a very similar fiscal year 26 working budget is very similar to actual fiscal year 25 actuals that we had for the uh the food service fund. We are budgeted to uh spend roughly the same on pretty much everything across the board there. One of the things to take note of is the beginning balance is decreasing. What that means is we have less pandemic money or basically no pandemic money at this point carrying expenses. So through the pandemic there was some grants that were covering milk costs or grants that would cover uh beef for a few months or different things. So all those operational expenses are moving back to the general fund, not to the general fund,
042to the food service fund. Um so the the beginning balance is is coming back down in line with what you would expect. the food service fund really should not carry a really large carryover balance. The federal government doesn't like that and eventually you have to figure out a way to kind of spend that down or make a plan to spend it down. Um so we're we're getting in line and it really does match up with what we would expect for the daycare fund. This is a very similar situation. The daycare funds just kind of been building money, building money, building money because the federal government through the pandemic was saying, "Feed kids and care for kids. Keep them if you can so people can get back to work." And we built up a lot of
043of federal funding that was able to cover our operational expenses for daycare for quite some time. There's only one daycare that still has a little bit of carryover pandemic money and that is the EBW daycare. They've got about $75,000 left. I think all total EBW had about 1.6 million that they ended up bringing in through the pandemic funds. So that $75,000 is the only one remaining. All other operational and personnel expenses for daycare are moving back to the daycare fund. So you'll see that, you know, we're budgeting to spend some money out of those funds. And you can see last year we spent about uh 559,000. This year we're budgeted to spend about 614,000. And if you go back to fiscal year 24, we had a credit to that account of 60,000. Um, so we're
044actually spending out of that. One thing I will say about the uh the daycare cost and the daycare the daycare funding, I don't know the last time we visited the cost of tuition for daycare. Um, but I know that right now we're spending more than we're bringing in in the daycare fund. So we really need to look at as we move forward. We have been we have a beginning balance that can carry us for a couple of years, but we need to look at tuition revenue and how that factors into the number of kids that are there, the number of staff members required, um, and how we can balance that so we don't end up in a a position we were in 1015 years ago where we're looking to the general fund to cover expenses
045for the daycare fund. So, that's a that's a conversation that we need to start. Not an immediate need, but that's something that needs to be on the horizon as well that we need to talk through at some point. That's one thing we said when we started a daycare that long as it supported itself good >> and and right now it's doing so. Don't hear me say that it's not. It is because of the pandemic funds and it's allowed to build up that very large balance. Um so it'll be fine this year no problem. I'm not worried about it at all. Um I really think it can make it one more year but I would like to be talking about a plan to how how we work our way towards uh sustainability there. I know that
046that's a we want to be able to sustain it, but I also understand when you have child care needs at that particular point in life, it's probably the point in life when you're not making as much as you would like to make to be able to cover all the costs. And if we look at that, we need to consider the best way to be able to do that to have the least impact on folks who need the service. I understand exactly what you're saying and I I believe in the accountability and the bottom line and I appreciate all that. I just know child care is really a tough situation in our society, our world today. Anything that we can do to help alleviate some of those burdens on young families at that particular age, we
047need to really consider that as best we can. I understand your point. Thank you. >> I I agree. I agree with you as well. Uh for the capital outlay building and debt service funds, the capital outlay fund is budgeted at $100 per head per U enrollment. That hasn't changed since, I believe, 1990. That stayed the same. So, we've got a $326,000 there based on whatever KDE has for our estimated enrollment for this year. The building fund, that is our three nickels from the property tax, local property tax rate. Um, and then the seek revenue that comes in associated with that that's matched. That's about $5.9 million from the seek sheet. And we have about 4.6ish sixish million uh depending on how the federal government's rebate works with our interest for the 2010 bond that we
048have. That's that federal revenue of 346 off to the right there. So, we have a a surplus in our building fund going towards our debt service, which is why you've seen me come with some capital funds request last year. Um and this year, you'll see some more at some point as well. So, that's that's something that that allows us um to to cover some of those general fund expenses, which is a very nice cushion to have there. The debt service fund is another in-n-out fund. Um, you know, whatever comes out of it, we put back in just to zero it out for the end of the year, move forward. You heard me say there's a a line in there for the federal revenue. That is a $346,000 payment that the federal government gives to us
049to pay interest on a 2010 bond is what that is. Um, and that's always a little bit of a hopefully it's going to come type situation. Uh, part of that money was reduced a few years back due to a sequestration, I believe is the terminology that our our fiscal agent used. Um, and sometimes it's slow getting here, but we do plan for it to be here. And if not, we're in fine shape to take care of it if we need to. That's not an issue. Um, I look back also while we're talking about the building fund and went back to our bonding capacity that the fiscal agent sent us in May of 2025. I did not ask for an update on that. Was 3 months ago when I got the last update, but just for
050your knowledge, it was about 42.7 million was our bonding capacity in uh May of 2025. Questions so far? Okay. to kind of wrap it up here, try to use a couple more graphics, you can see, you heard me say a few minutes ago that the general fund is our biggest fund. If you put all of our funds together, it accounts for 71.3% of our overall budget off on the left there. Special revenue fund is next at 10 point or I'm sorry, the building fund is next at 10.6 and then special revenue at 10.1 and then it kind of flows from there. And then off to the right, where does all that money come from? About 48% of it comes from the state, 49% from the state, about 32% comes from local revenue, 8.8% from the
051federal revenue, uh, and then some beginning balance and interf fund transfers make up the other 10%. And when you put it all together on a really really big spreadsheet with really really small numbers, um it leads us to an overall budget um in the neighborhood of 60ish million total all total uh for all the different funds that we're working with there. Questions? Could I just make a short statement? First of all, we have exceptional folks across the board working in our schools, transportation, food service, you name it. Exceptional people. I think we have exceptional people that work here at central office. I know the buck stops with the superintendent on everything. I understand that. I just think you do an exceptional job with what you do managing this. Unless you've lived under a rock the
052last few months, you know, there are school districts who are facing some incredible challenges. And I know they must have folks like you, and I'm not hammering anybody else. I'm mostly just wanting to compliment you on the job that you do, making sure that it's transparent, it's honest, it's open, it's upfront, you're available for folks who have questions. And even though I may need some more remediation on this, and you know that I am, and I'm going to call you and ask for it, I just think that we're blessed to have somebody who makes it this transparent for everybody to see and to understand and that you are available if somebody has a question about how this how this works. You know, I'm always concerned about the contingency. I'm always concerned about making sure that
053we have uh the money that we need to operate the system without having to get into situations that are more challenging. So, I would just say thank you because I appreciate what you do. Of course, I have an advantage having seen you as a math teacher, having watched you grow. That is an advantage, but it's an incredible job that you do in making sure that we understand and that we are financially stable as a school district, and that's more and more important each and every day. So, I would just say thank you. >> I appreciate that. It is not a oneman show. I can assure you of that. Nobody else in my department would ever probably want to come up here and talk, though. Uh, but they do a great job and they really help
054me stay on track. Um, and and with that, I will I will say um we stay on top of it. Um, every month I I was looking today at all of our our project budgets that we go through. Um, I can see where you can get in trouble really fast if you're if you're not looking at at the numbers on a regular basis. Um, I am glad we are not in a position that some other districts are in. I do actually think um that our contingency might actually be a little bit higher, but I would rather underpromise and overd deliver than overpromise and underdel to you all. And you heard me say the auditor was here this last week and preliminarily our schools did a really great job and our our district office did a
055really great job and I think you'll hear her sing our praises at some point as well. Doesn't mean we're perfect. wouldn't anticipate us to be perfect with thousands upon thousands of transactions and millions upon millions of dollars, but they do a really great job and I am open to to answer any questions that anybody has and and really my goal is to help folks understand what in the world's going on because this is this is not easy. It's not easy to explain to anybody what's happening. Um but you know, if you try and just break it down as as low as possible for folks and for me to understand because honestly that's what I had to do when I got here. Um, I did not have a background in any of this information. Um, but
056I can figure it out and that's what we've done in the last couple years. So, thank you very much. I appreciate that. >> Everybody district does a good job of managing money and not wasting paper, not wasting stuff that makes your job a whole lot easier. Excellent job. Make a motion to approve working budget. >> Second, Steve Carmichael >> with the first and second. Can I go a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins, >> yes. >> Scott Brown, >> yes. >> Steve Carmichael, >> yes. >> Sunny Fentrez, >> yes. >> James Sergeant, >> uh, consideration to approve two district-wide special education par educators uh, to help with high needs behavioral students as requested by special education director Beth Morgan Cook. >> Mrs. Morgan Cook isn't here this evening, but um she is
057monitoring um behavior very closely across the district. Um she and I both have done several observations. Um and I would like um to make a recommendation to approve this request as well. Any questions that I can answer? >> Motion to approve. Scott Bram second. Steve Carmichael >> with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. >> Sunny Fentrez. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. >> Uh recommend recommendation to approve the following. Adult meal prices for 2526 school year. Uh breakfast $3.25 and lunch $55. Adult meal prices uh are provided by KDE as calculated by the USDA formula. As you all know, we've approved these once this year because um we did not have an updated formula. So, we
058went on last year's um formula until we got the updated one that did arrive um last week and so we were able to get this on the agenda. Um as stated, this is um a USDA formula calculated by KDE and it is an annual uh approval. Are there any questions I can answer? >> Well, that's eating breakfast and lunch A cup of coffee. >> That motion approve. Scott Brown. >> Second. Steve Carmichael. >> With the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. >> Yes. >> Sunonny Fentrez. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. >> Safety update. >> Travis Harley. Thank you for the opportunity to allow me to talk to you about this this evening. something that I
059was able to uh take on after Mr. Fields had retired and I knew he did plenty with it, but I didn't quite know exactly how much plenty added up to. It's plenty. So, there's there's quite a bit to this. He did a fantastic job and I'm going to try to continue to do that same work off of the framework that he's established for us. What I'll start off by saying is this. Uh teachers, uh staff members, SRO's, local public officials, all those folks combined to make our schools very, very safe. They daily are actively supervising. Yes, what we're getting ready to go through is is largely pieces of compliance, but at the end of the day, our folks do an outstanding job of active supervising and taking care of our children, and I'm grateful for
060that for sure. Go ahead and get started through the uh school supervision and safety update. This is a policy that is require This update is is required by board policy 5.4. Committee is composed of school and district administrators and department heads of the first responders agencies. Our first public uh safety walkthrough this year was conducted on July the 22nd um which we had which we invited all of the officials from each of the agencies to walk through. And then our first official safety committee meeting was was on July the 29th. objective is to use district safety and student discipline data to create measures to protect students, staff, visitors, and property as we conduct those meetings and work through all of our meetings. Everybody has the eye for making sure that we are always improving. Our
061practices are good, but they can always continually improve. And that that's largely the efforts that what we that we do. The next sheet you've got short and long-term strategies discussed uh with our school safety and supervision plan committee. First part of that is continued revision and improvement of school superv school supervision maps indoor and outdoor. Phase two of that component will be to an analyze data uh to improve our practice. Last year what we did was is we really focused on who was on campus and the folks on the inside of our campus making sure that they were very tight on supervision in active supervision. Those will continue and we'll continue to improve those. I did not want to remove that because we still have improvement areas to make on that but it's largely improved.
062Increased public safety presence and culture for safety on school campuses with regularly scheduled walkthroughs. This is something that Lieutenant Likens has worked heavily on already at the beginning of the school year to schedule visits where our public safety officials and first responders can enter the school building and do regularly scheduled walkthroughs, but then also have a meal in our cafeteria with children. It's been something that's been really neat process to get started. Uh I'm looking forward to see exactly how that goes um as we move forward. Uh, one of the pieces of culture is is that uh, with that culture piece that it's a regular a regular thing for our for our children to see public safety officials. They're not scared of them. They feel as though they're there to protect them and they understand
063why they're there. And that that piece is something that we're continually working to improve on. Next line is increase the toolkit of student and staff skill for proactive responses in all in an all hazards approach using the Kentucky Center for School Safety and the I Love You guys Foundation support efforts. This summer I was able to experience quite a good presentation by a young lady that was involved in some some activities throughout her upbringing which moved her to to create the I love you guys foundation. It's really centered around building students skill set for how they monitor safety in all situations, whether that's in in the public or also in school. Really want to look at encouraging and increasing the the level of skill set that our students have with regards to their own safety.
064And the last piece on this uh more of a long-term um improvement is going to be the implement implementation and use of school issued identification badges. This is not and ground zero unit. It's just a beginning conversation that we'll work through. There's a lot of upside for us to be able to to accomplish that after we collaborate through that. On the last slide, the areas must include employment practices, employment, employee management, school facility design, maintenance and usage, safety and security procedures, orientation, training and use, management of equipment, facilities, supervision of students, compliance with state federal safety requirements, quarterly reports to the board concerning implementation of plan and its effect on district students personnel and operations, emergency crisis intervention, and involvement. Summarizing that is to say that all all approaches are all geared toward continually improving
065active supervision of students and adults in our school district to ensure the safety of each individual that we represent. Continue to do that. Happy to answer any questions as it relates to this. >> I don't have a question about that. really frustrates me. Morning. We're only allowed to do 55. Even though I was on the interstate, the interstate GPS. >> Yes, it's understood. We have an all hazards approach from the chemicals we store to the speed limits that we need to observe to the processes for active supervision inside of a hallway while children are moving between classes. So understood and we'll relay there aren't any kind of controls on buses are they set the limit on how fast that bus can go because I had a similar situation and it was it wasn't one of
066our buses but I was going somewhere and I was on the interstate and the bus had to be going 75 80 miles an hour. I'm thinking I didn't know a school bus could go that fast. He left me. So I just, you know. >> Yeah. So what >> there was nobody on the bus. I was thankful for that. Anyway, go ahead. >> The answer is is yes, we do have the ability to govern those. And when we see where we have issues speeding, we do govern as but yes, we can govern buses to to set the limitation speed limitation. Um as Mr. Sergeant alluded to, he wasn't referencing an Anderson County bus. We've not had a whole lot of issues with that. But when we We address those. Those aren't tried to keep up with
067one once and I knew that if I I was trying to keep up with him to get his number off the bus because I was going to I couldn't set my GPS off >> and and again I the bus I I wouldn't identify the bus anyway, but I was just amazed that a bus could go that fast because I was just cruising along at 73 74 miles an hour and the bus was pulling off leaving me. I thought, man, that's impressive. Dangerous, but impressive. I still remember going down the interstate seeing that sign over big bus crash. You all are old enough. You all remember >> Yeah. That the gentleman, one of the gentlemen that was a survivor that comes and speaks certain children actually that the last years importance of driving safe, having safe
068habits across the board, >> Mr. Charlie, I just wanted to say um I've worked with you in several capacities uh over the last couple months. Um and uh I appreciate you stepping up and and really um I think you're doing a really good job. Just wanted to let you know that, you know, seeing you in in different capacities, it's very encouraging. >> I appreciate that. Thank you very much. At the end of the day, the folks that are on the ground level in our schools, they're the ones that make this all happen. I just have a part of that. >> Any other questions on this item? Next item is um consideration to approve uh the recommendation for students to graduate I'm sorry, I jumped ahead. One uh enrollment update. Uh 2526 uh year assistant uh
069superintendent Travis Harley will provide the enrollment update for the 2526 school year. >> Sorry about that, Travis. >> This is the same report that's carried through for since I've been here. 1718 actually part of it goes back to 1516 is where we began those numbers. This in there's three there's three pieces in this report that I'm going to go through. Um it has all of our school data on the first sheet with each schools divided out over the course of the last uh 10 years, 10 school years. And then at the very bottom on the back side of that you have a P12 number there. That's again 10 years. What you're going to see is is that our our school district as a whole, we have about less than 100 kids again this school year.
070This is the second straight school year for which our attendance or excuse me our enrollment has dropped. As we go through each of the grade levels um you can see some some variations. Last year we talked about kindergarten and preschool being less. You're going to see that that goes up. You're going to see that there's graduating classes that go out and those aren't necessarily replaced um by larger classes. And then you're also just going to see some classes in grade levels where folks leave and go to other school districts in other counties or they go to home school. Whatever the the variations are, those at the end of the day have rendered us less students than a year prior. Okay. And that's kind of what we're going to go through in this report. When you
071look at um when you look at the the number of students on the far right hand side, the difference that's listed there at Anderson County High School, 101 students, there's there's a a very good reason why that is. Some of the students at Anderson County High School were actually pulled out into a separate enrollment for the alternative program, the Anderson County Learning Academy. So of those about 30 of those uh 100 would could could be claimed from that. Others uh also go back to homeschool opportunities andor students loss of enrollment um from large class that we um graduated out last year. If you look at the four classes that are in those enrollment areas in Anderson County High School, 300 had gotten to be a benchmark area. 300 per class. We've gradually gone beneath that
072over the course of the last several years. And you'll notice if you look to the left to 2425, those two two classes, two largest classes there, 11 and 12. Again, the same thing happened in the year previous. Those those grade levels are larger classes. Those have not been replaced by large classes. Okay? Those are phased out in graduation and then they're replaced by a smaller class. And there some of the enrollment differences there. Anderson County Middle School is plus 14 students uh at 790. Very similar enrollment to the previous school year. M Ward uh their enrollment is down 23 from one year prior. Look at uh first grade on the elementary schools. You'll notice a smaller first grade number than a second grade number. That's a that's a static uh number across the school district
073you're going to see and also is is part of that reason why the the enrollment numbers at the elementary schools are a little bit less than in previous years. Ezra Sparrow is plus 44 students. You'll notice in that particular particular grade levels of kindergarten and preschool. Last year we mentioned that those were less. That is not the case this year. Enrollment is moving back up in in those two grade levels. at is Rasparero Early Childhood Center and also kindergarten is on the move up as well at Robert Turner. Robert B. Turner still has the highest uh enrollment of the elementary schools but is down 14 14 students schoolwide. Sappel Street has a difference of 40 students less than year prior. Okay, again look at the first grade number. Street Elementary. If you look at the
074first grade number for Robert V. Turner, if you look at that first grade number for Emma Ward, those three classes, excuse me, those three schools each, that one grade level of students is much less than the the one ahead of them. And that's an impact that that shows in their overall enrollment as well. Flip over to the second sheet that shows that by year, by grade across, and like we've done in years past, we'll go left to right. If you notice, notice again, we are down 79 students from a year ago, which is about a 2% reduction in our overall uh student enrollment. of the key points I want to show you though is if you look at the PK number preschool number for 2526 in comparison to the previous year that's plus 26 that's
075a good sign if you take that look at that PK number in 2425 and move from the left to the right up one one slot to kindergarten that's 244 that's positive jump see those we didn't lose those kids these are the things that that I want to show you where we're losing students. And these are there's not any one particular grade, but this is how it looks. 2425. If you'll look at kindergarten and then you slide to the upright to first grade, looks like we lost about 19 kids right there from kindergarten to first grade. That's how that works. That's that's where the enrollment goes. We see pockets where it goes up and down. Largely in these these elementary grades, you're going to see them each go down. First grade 2425 to second grade lose
076two students. Lose one in third grade not as big. If you go to fourth grade look at the jump in from third to fourth grade a cohort of students in 20 2425 from third grade to fourth grade that's a reduction of 40 students. Okay. That's a big number. go across mostly mostly other than 10th to 11th grade mostly they're all within five to six kids plus or minus nothing too striking but those are the ones that are the the major lumps if you will as far as loss of enrollment flip over to the back sheet Best part about what I'm going to tell you is is even though we have fewer students showing up, they're showing up more frequently. That's a good thing. Look at lines to the far to the far right 2425 and
077the same number of school days, it is a full 1.1% higher uh in terms of the rate of attendance. That's a good thing. Uh when we send out across school district, all of our schools are are really performing quite well. High school is extraordinarily well. You're typically the hardest one to get kids to attend regularly. the largest number of >> what questions can I answer for you? >> School aid children in Anderson County that are not going to public schools. Where are they going? >> We got some that are going to Cal, some are going to other school districts, and the majority of them are going to go to home school. Looks like we're in the neighborhood of about 260 additional applications this year than in previous years. criteria to to check on move on
078check in on students. >> Yeah, absolutely. And and and we do I have those when I you know largely we stay out of folks business unless there are issues that are present. But yes, the answer is yes, we do do that. That's that's part of the office or part of my office's role is to do that uh to ensure the integrity of what's taking place. Uh right now what really we you know want to do is is do a better job or I should say do more of a job of getting the good information out that we are doing. There's a lot of really good stuff going on in county schools. Um and maybe that's some of that messaging has been overcrowded by other things. Uh you know and that's you know that that's a
079circumstance that that we're going to have to work through. Um, best thing we can do is is do real well with what we have now and then celebrate that and make sure that folks know about that. Um, we there's an eb and flow back and forth. Even just in a week's time we lose five Monday just since Friday I can speak to just since Friday we've had plus or minus five in the area of going in or out from home school. That's a moving target. That number is our total number. That's something we deal with. What's a big big uh revenue loss having 70 79 students? >> I don't I don't look for it to to remain that way. I think we're going to get some of those back. Um what we really want to
080do is is front end is build our preschool numbers kindergarten numbers and get those back up to where you're having neighborhood of 300 class each year. That's what our schools are built for. That's what our staffing are built for. That's where we want to jump up with all the new apartments built in large older people. >> So you know I get to do a good number of home visits and what I find is for every new apartment complex. There's an empty house that somebody's left and nobody's put back into. There's plenty of them in town and some of them that some of our loss enrollment this year are exactly that on home. There's not anybody in the property at all. Are >> these numbers typical of surrounding counties? Are they dropping enrollment and losing kids?
081>> Yeah. So, we the answer is yes. I don't have those numbers in front of me to be specific. It's something that our neighbors south of us have dealt with quite for quite some time in Mercer County. I've talked to them quite regularly about and a lot of times they were losing those students to us. A lot of folks were driving to Frankfurt and they were choosing to come here. U folks that moved, you know, that were driving from Mercer County per se. House Bill 365 has allowed folks to be able to go wherever they want. no longer entertaining contracts like we used to do with surrounding school districts and we had to report that each each year. That's no longer a requirement. As long as there's space available in a school district and a
082person requests that you can analyze that space by class, by school, by district larely see if you have space and we do have space got some space issues in certain grade levels depends SBA East. I don't know that ours is as much as a population, more of a choice. choosing some other things right now. Using out there why you should choose user folks retired. I had open heart surgery. I was interested in somebody been to medical school to do that job for me. >> Sorry, say that one. >> I said I I've had open heart surgery. I was interested in somebody that had been to medical school to learn how to do that. >> I would just say that we are blessed in Anderson County. We have lots of resources. So whether it's the public
083schools or it's the Christian academy or our homesooled parents and I think we all get along well. I don't know that you find that in every community, but our kids are really blessed and so are our parents because we have lots of opportunities and options and I think it's neat that we work well together. So I appreciate that. I know I can speak from the Christian Academy, our preschool kindergarten program when I was there, great opportunity as it is in public education. Our numbers kind of adjusted themselves as kids got ready to go to go to middle school or high school. our numbers would decrease. And uh I heard often that folks in public education were pleased with the kids that they got. But it kind of balanced itself out, you know, it kind of
084balanced itself out. But I think it's nice to be in a community where folks work together because that's best for kids. Thanks, Travis. Else on that. >> Appreciate it. >> Thank you. Next up is Consideration to approve uh the recommendation for students to graduate early who have completed their coursework. >> Motion approved. Scott Brown. >> Second. Steve Carmichael. >> First and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. >> Yes. >> Mh. Sunny Crez. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. Uh shortened school day request consideration to approve a shortened school day for two students uh as recommended by special education director uh Beth Morgan Cook and the ARC committee. >> Are there any questions regarding this request? This is ARC
085recommended as well as um provided with additional support for medical healthc care providers um and recommended by Mrs. Morgan Cook, our special education director. Any questions? I can answer. >> No questions. Motion to approve. Scott Brown. >> Second. Steve Carmichael >> with first. Second. Got a roll file. >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. Sunonny Fentrez. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. >> Uh trip requests. Uh recommended to approve the following trip requests. Um, I'll let you all look over those those three. Um, one for the baseball, uh, one for the band, and a couple for the band. And I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve. >> Thank you. >> Second, Scott Brown >> with a first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >>
086Yes, sir. Jason Collins, >> yes. >> Scott Brown, >> yes. >> Steve Carmichael, yes. >> Sunonny Fentrez, >> yes. >> James Sergeant, >> yes. Commissioning payment uh consideration to approve uh facility commissioning group incorporated at $3,05 uh for commissioning services for Anderson County Middle School, South Street Elementary HVAC uh building project 23-130. Uh there's $2,160 remaining on this contract. for >> any questions I can answer regarding this request. We'll >> pay them 3,000 or 2,000 left on there. >> Yes, sir. >> Motion approved. Scott Brown second. Steve >> with first and second. Can I go a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. Sunny Ventress. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. Consideration to approve uh Assistant Superintendent Travis Harley and chief academic officer Bobby
087Murphy to serve as administrators of the 2526 uh C appeals panel. >> This is an annual request. Um the C um is our evaluation plan. Um the teacher representatives are selected among the teachers. Um and it is a requirement from the board every year to appoint two administrators if this process um is needed to supervise and oversee um that this process um is completed based upon um the board approved valuation plan. Um annually um we always select two in case there's any um type of conflict. um around the evaluation. Are there any questions I can answer? >> Thank you. >> Steve Carmichael. >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. Yes. >> Sunny Fentress. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. >> Uh virtual elementary waiver. uh consideration to approve
088a waiver to provide educational services to elementary students uh virtually as requested by assistant superintendent uh Travis Harley. That way since this was able to be started, we actually during co did have a K5 instructional delivery model for one year and then we followed that and requested a waiver from you for one year for one student only. We went away from that because we don't feel like it was the absolute best, but it does give us flexibility in certain circumstances. And this evening, what I'm requesting of you is uh to consider approving us to be able to do this one more time, at least one more time. The elementary virtual option is being requested under this waiver and includes grades K through five. The platform includes synchronous, which means the teacher standing and talking on
089a computer. So, it's it's not asynchronous where it's on demand and the child is just plugging away on a computer. It's it's different. It's a situation where on the other side of the screen largely more largely than an asynchronous instruction opportunity. Families who work with medical professionals, that's the key on this, and our staff to seek this as an option. Traditional school are outlined in this waiver. Students are scheduled into non-traditional performance-based virtual courses. Attendance is taken twice per day, once in the AM and once in the PM. The attendance overall calculation through KDP is calculated based on a passing or failing grade. Okay, that's largely where this comes from. But in addition to that, students in grades K through five under this waiver are required, the teacher required to monitor that AM and PM
090with with a particular student or students um that would fit into this. And you'll notice there in the bold print, um, medical and or extenduating school circumstances are preferred. Enrollment is limited to these circumstances and student performance is considered. Not all requests for enrollment into virtual programs will be expected or excuse me, accepted largely won't recommend that. wouldn't recommend that other than in circumstances where they absolutely are necessary due to medical extenduating circumstances and that's what this request is for this evening for this particular waiver. very similar to homebound home placement but gives us a little bit more flexibility with having the student be able to come to the school to receive the services. >> Motion approved. Scott Brown second. Steve Carmichael >> with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote
091please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. Yes. >> Sunny Fentress. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. Thank you. Uh fundraiser approvals for 2526. uh consideration to approve the following fundraisers uh for 2526 for MMA Ward Elementary uh Seville Street Elementary and Anderson County Middle School Are there any questions on his >> motion to approve Scott Brown? >> Second. Steve Carmich >> with first and second. You can get a roll call vote, please. >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. >> James Sergeant. >> Sunny Fentrez. >> Yes. >> Uh, extended leave request. MMA Ward uh teacher Rebecca Ratliff uh is requesting unpaid leave for December 5th, 2025 uh to the end of the school year. >> Motion approved. SC >> with
092first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins, yes. >> Scott Brown, >> yes. >> Steve Carmichael, >> Sunonny Fentrez, yes. James Sergeant >> uh purchases over $10,000. Uh chief information officer uh Blake Jury is requesting to purchase uh Google Workspace uh edu plus for $16,879.50. Uh this is a three-year commitment that locks the district into the current pricing through 2028. Uh price increases from $4.50 per student to $6 uh per student effective uh 10125. Uh this amount is budgeted and will be paid uh with K's uh technology funding. >> This request comes from Mr. Dury um our chief information officer. Are there any questions that he can answer? If no questions, can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. Steve Carmichael. >> Second. Scott
093Brown >> with first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. Steve Carmichael. Yes. >> Sunonny Fentrez. Yes. >> James Sergeant. >> Graduation date for 26. Uh Anderson County High School Principal Chris Glass is requesting approval for to set the 26 uh graduation date on Friday, May 22nd uh 2026 at 6:30 p.m. on the Anderson County High School football field or the Anderson County High School uh gym depending on the weather. >> Really appreciate Mr. um Glass and his staff working to get this uh to get the graduation date out early so that families could plan. Um as you know um our first option is always to try to hold our ceremony um on the Anderson County High School football field
094where we've been fortunate to do that at least one time um over the course of the last five years. Um Anderson County High School gymnasium is always a really nice ceremony as well as we experienced last year. Um the time for starting would be 6:30 PM. Um and as always, they do a great job of really trying to determine um if what the weather is going to do um in a timely manner so people can plan for tickets. Um they also live stream the graduation ceremony so people can um watch that in the auditorium and um they do a great job of making sure that we are accommodating for handicap parking and seating for families. Are there any questions? Mr. Glass can answer for anyone regarding the graduation date for 2026. >> We could probably
095arrange that. Mr. Glasser down that day. You have to get approval of course from Travis. Motion to approve. Scott Brown >> second. Steve Carmichael >> with first and second. Can I roll roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins, Scott Brown, >> yes. >> Steve Carmichael, >> Sunonny Fentrez, >> yes. >> James Sergeant Journ. Scott Brown, >> second. Steve Carmichael >> with the first and second. Can I get a roll call vote, please? >> Yes, sir. Jason Collins. >> Yes. >> Scott Brown. >> Yes. >> Steve Carmichael. >> Yes. >> Sunny FZ. >> Yes. >> James Sergeant. >> Yes. We are adjourned. >> And it's a good thing because my voice is not going to carry you. We need